Arena Profile: Ex-St. Rep. Fran Wendelboe

Fran Wendelboe completed seven term as a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. In 2005 and 2006, she served as the Deputy Majority Leader. She served on the Health and Human Services Committee for nine years and on the Finance Committee for 11 years where she served on the Division that deals with the health care budget. Wendelboe also served for five years in the executive branch of the state government as a Commissioner on the NH State Board of Pharmacy representing the interest of the public. This Board regulates the licensure and practice of pharmacy in the state as well as is the investigatory arm of doctors, nurses and pharmacists as it relates to pharmaceutical prescribing.

She served as NH State Director for Women in Government from 2002-05. Wendelboe is also a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, and has served on the national Health and Human Services Task Force with ALEC for the last several years and prior to that was on the Task Force on Criminal Justice.

Wendelboe has been active at several levels of involvement with Republican politics. She served on the Executive Board of the NH Republican State Committee in 2009-2010 and was a candidate in the first congressional district in the 2002 election. In 2006, after the disastrous election cycle for Republicans, she co-founded the New Hampshire Reagan Network. This organization’s focus was in recruiting and training conservative candidates for the NH State House. Their efforts saw a gain in 2008 of 15 state house seats, one of only three states in the nation to do so in the Democratic tide of 08. Seventy NH House candidates received campaign training for the 2010 election cycle — and Wendelboe predicts a gain of 60-70 Republican state house seats in November.

She was guest host of “Political Chowder” in 2009, an hour long political talk show that aired in 80 communities on NH Cable channels. Wendelboe currently is a blogger for “The Lobby," a new Internet political and business news media outlet.

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